Dear George, Dear Mary

**A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by** **nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist** **Mary Calvi.**

*“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George Washington*

Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Never before has this story about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, *Dear George, Dear Mary *explores George’s relationship with his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest belle in Colonial America.

From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battlefields, the novel creates breathtaking scenes and riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of greatness, using the very words he spoke and wrote, and his ravishing love, whose outward beauty and refinement disguise a complex inner struggle.

*Dear George, Dear Mary* reveals why George Washington had such bitter resentment toward the Brits, established nearly two decades before the American Revolution, and it unveils details of a deception long hidden from the world that led Mary Philipse to be named a traitor, condemned to death and left with nothing. While that may sound like the end, ultimately both Mary and George achieve what they always wanted.